A handful of items today ...

The Stoa has collected a number of Google Earth 'placemarks' of ancient sites ...

Laudator is pondering praise ...

Hobbyblog has a nice Gallienus with an image of Victoria ...

Roman History Books is looking at the Arch of Constantine ... (and I think I missed mentioning this post on ancient plagues) ...

MK alerts us (thanks) that one of the ODNB lives of the week this week is Constantius Chlorus (link goes to the main page since the 'life of the day' changes daily)

PhDiva DK has been to Oxford's online exhibition of Oxyrhynchus Papyri ... she also notes that that 'mass burial' story in the Telegraph (see below) isn't the only one we know about ...

Bestiaria presents us with the story of the peacock and Juno ...

Father Foster's latest: Our “Latin Lover” translated Pope Benedict’s first encyclical letter “God is love” into the Church’s official language. A tough task he claims because of that terrible jargon currently in use in modern languages. The Romans he moans never spoke that way! Find out in “Deus Caritas Est”...